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He pointed to the hut which they had almost reached

"That's it!" answered Seaton--"And I prefer it to any palace ever built No servants, no furniture, no useless luh for any enes"--commented Gwent--"If we all lived in his way or your way it would be a poor look-out for trade! However, I presume you'll escape taxation here!"

Seatonhis visitor a chair

"I hope you've had breakfast"--he said--"For I haven't any to give you You can have a glass of ood subject for pri for it to agree with me!"

He sat down His eyes were at once attracted by the bowl of restless fluid on the table

"What's that?" he asked

Roger Seaton smatically

"Only a trifle"--he answered--"Just health! It's a sort of taliserm-proof, dust-proof, disease-proof! No microbe of mischief, however infinitesimal, can exist near it, and a few drops, taken into the system, revivify the whole"

"If that's so, your fortune's made"--said Gwent, "Give your discovery, or recipe, or whatever it is, to the world---"

"To keep the world alive? No, thank you!" And the look of dark scorn on Seaton's face was astonishing in its almost satanic expression--"That is precisely what I wish to avoid! The world is over-ripe and over-rotten,--and it is over-croith a festering humanity that is INhu for self and greed One remedy for the evil would be that no children should be born in it for the next thirty or forty years--the relief would be incalculable,--a monstrous burden would be lifted, and there would be some chance of betterht and found It's pure hypocrisy to talk of love for children, when every day we read offor soa spell of fa calves, for food Ugly facts like these have to be looked in the face--it's no use putting the beautiful lies about 'mother-love' and such nonsense As for the old Mosaic commandment 'Honour thy father and irls attacking andtheir parents for the sake of a few dollars"